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June 24, 2009

G71: Red Sox 6, Nationals 4

David Ortiz crushed a three-run home run in the fourth, Jason Varitek hit a two-run dong in the sixth and the Sox bullpen, in relief of Lester (6-6-3-2-6, 103) held back the Nats.

Jacoby Ellsbury made two nice running catches to keep the score at 6-4. With a runner of third and two outs in the seventh, Ryan Zimmerman drove the ball to deep left center, but LBJ ran it down, banging into the wall. With one out on the bottom of the ninth, Willie Harris's drive to deep right-center was also hauled in.

Ortiz now has 1,002 career RBI and 296 career home runs. He also singled and scored in the sixth on Tek's dong. ... Dustin Pedroia had a double and an RBI-single. ... Jason Bay struck out three times and went 0-for-4.

2005 - Thanks to Bernie Williams dropping a ball in center field, the Mets become the first National League to hit three sacrifice flies in one inning. Backstop Ramon Castro's sac fly to right ties the game at 1-1 as David Wright advances to third; the Yankee's centerfielder then drops Jose Reyes deep fly ball allowing Wright to scored; Cameron skies to right plating Mientkiewicz, who had advanced to third on errant pick off throw.

CRAIG STAMMEN IS PITCHING A PERFECT GAME!!!!CRAIG STAMMEN IS PITCHING A PERFECT GAME!!!!CRAIG STAMMEN IS PITCHING A PERFECT GAME!!!!CRAIG STAMMEN IS PITCHING A PERFECT GAME!!!!CRAIG STAMMEN IS PITCHING A PERFECT GAME!!!!

2:21AM is the time. And there's a good chance I'll stay up even if I don't want to. It's not that I'm really jet lagged, I've just been meeting friends till very late (or early... the sun had risen when our "night" ended each time) for my first three nights here. This night ended quite early, so I'm here.

Broken bat grounder - the bat tumbled out toward Green quicker than the ball. Green stayed with the play as quickly as he could but the BAT took a bad hop and the barrel end jumped up toward his HEAD. Fortunately he got his head out of the way and the bat glanced off his right shoulder. Ball ended up in short OF.

I'm not saying this just because he's playing well now - earlier comments in the season supports this - but I really thought Nick Green would be a good player for the Red Sox. Not his first few games, but he got consistent playing time when Lowrie went down and he kept up with the other guys in stats.

Were you at the game where the Wild shut the Caps out? Man, that was a frustrating game. Not as frustrating as game 7 versus Pittsburgh, but I digress.

No, the game we were at the Wild got ahead 4-0, then the Caps scored three goals in the last five minutes and had a couple of shots come close in 6-on-5 scrums in the finals seconds. Ovechkin had a goal and an assist.

"No, the game we were at the Wild got ahead 4-0, then the Caps scored three goals in the last five minutes and had a couple of shots come close in 6-on-5 scrums in the finals seconds. Ovechkin had a goal and an assist."

I remember that game. I actually watched the whole thing even though the Caps were getting smoked. It was an exciting last two minutes, which almost made up for a lousy first fifty-eight.

Just had dinner. Pounded chicken breast and marinated in taco seasoning, lime juice and oil. Bought an asiago cheese bagel from Panera Bread, put a couple of slices of cheddar cheese on it with the chicken and OMG. Had that with red potatoes.

Just had dinner. Pounded chicken breast and marinated in taco seasoning, lime juice and oil. Bought an asiago cheese bagel from Panera Bread, put a couple of slices of cheddar cheese on it with the chicken and OMG. Had that with red potatoes.

Tri-color three-cheese tortellini (and it HAS to be tri-color or else it apparently doesn't taste as good) with alfredo sauce, sourdough baguette from the best bakery in town and virgin olive oil.

As I recall, it takes a day for each time zone to get back on track after traveling. Plus I am sure your adrenaline is not making it easy to fall asleep. All that re-entry stuff.

Plus, drinking with friends till 5:30AM doesn't help... my first night I was at a friend's house till 4:30, and then decided to walk back home. The 2-hour walk, that brought me through some of the older "new" neighbourhoods in Jerusalem, and circling the walls of the old city at dawn was a great way to reacquaint myself with the city.

Since everybody's talking about food: tomorrow I'm probably going to the old city to one of the best hummus places in Israel. It's great, and really cheap. Plus they make a salad with labane (a kind of fermented, sour cream cheese) and mint that is extraordinary. And baklawas later... man, I've missed Israeli food a LOT.

I think I knew LJ was a Tek fan, but must have missed her comments about him last night. I will have to go see how she loves him differently. Nice to see that she is coming to JOS1! Two female Cohens who are Tek fans. How will anyone tell us apart?